Recognition and its Shadows: Dalits and the Politics of Religion in India
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Joel Lee
نام ساير پديدآوران
Daniel, E. Valentine
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Columbia University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
320
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-54898-3
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Anthropology
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Columbia University
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
In its Constitution, postcolonial India acknowledges the caste-based practice of 'untouchability' as a social and historical wrong, and seeks to redress the effects of this wrong through compensatory discrimination. Dalits are recognized by the state as having suffered the effects of untouchability, and thus as eligible for statutory protections and remedial measures, on the condition that they profess no religion 'different from the Hindu religion' (a condition later expanded to include Sikhism and Buddhism as well). The present work charts the career of the idea underlying this condition of recognition - the idea that the 'untouchable,' insofar as she has not converted to Islam, Christianity, or another 'world religion,' must be Hindu - and its consequences, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Historically and ethnographically grounded in the community life of the sanitation labor castes - those Dalits castes that perform the vast majority of South Asia's sanitation work - in the north Indian city of Lucknow, the study tracks the idea from its ruptive colonial beginnings to its propagation by Hindu nationalists, induction into mainstream nationalism and installation in the edifice of postcolonial law. This is also an account of the everyday effects of postcolonial India's regime of recognition in the present: what it confers, what it transforms, what hides in its shadows.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion; Cultural anthropology; South Asian Studies
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Anthropology of the senses;Caste;Dalits;Religious identity;Sanitation labor;South asia
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